The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

settlement with his creditors at twenty cents on
the dollar.
HERBERT SPENCER is at Bournemouth in
very poor health. The insomnia which recently
afflicted him has returned and he can find no
remedy for it.
BEN BUTLER has not sent in his bill yet to the
Chicago Anarchists. Lawyer Tucker wants
$780, and his bill is still unsettled. All the
money has been spent giving the martyrs tuner
ais.
QUILL toothpcks come from France The
largest factory in the world is Paris 1t
produces 20 OOo 900 toothpicks in year. Tt
was formerly devoted to the making of quill
pens.
LORD HARRINGTON, Vim. z. Gladstone and
James G. Blaine will be within the borders of
Italy before long. They seem to have been
taken with the roamin' fever at about the same
time.
Boston Transcript: When little Meg saw a
picture of Christian with the burden on his back.
she looked at it curiously for mintue and then
said: Mamma, what makes the nanny wear his
hustle so high up on his backF
MIR f. EDWARD GEFLowsKI has finished the
model of full-length statue of Queen Victoria,
which he will shortly do in marble for Singa
pore. The model is considered excellent
likeness, and high work of art.
Miss ADELE GRANT was in no way cast down
by the marriage of her former fance. Earl
Cairns. In tact. she went to a dancing party IN
Washington on the night of his wedding-day.
She probably thinks she had a lucky escape.
Ex-Governor MYRoN Fl. CLARK, of New
York, who was elected some years ago on the
temperance issue, has lost his faith in prohibi-
ton, and advocates high license as the
most effectual method OF combating the saloon.
THE new Partisan lingerie for trousseaux is
pure white, and made of the very finest posi-
BILE lawn finer than even the most fastidious
md ext
been able to obtain. Colored lingerie has had
its day.
IT is said that the most acceptable of all holt
day presents to lady from her husband or
brother, or any friend who has a right to give
it, is long narrow strip of tinted paper on
which is written: PAY to the order of "
$, &C"
JESSE HAwoRTH, of Bowdon, Cheshire. has
presented to the British. Museum the throne
chair of Queen Hatasu. of the eighteenth
Egyptian dynasty, B. G. 1000. This is the old
est piece of furniture in the world the date OF
which is known.
WANAMAKER Philadelphia's bloated capitalist
who has 5000 men in his employ, worked
youth in brick-yard at $3.50 a week He got
up wonderful constitution by carrying bricks
in his hands and never weakened it by carrying
bricks in his hat
DIR. SCHLIEMANN returned to Athens re-
Gently from Cerigo (Cythera), where he at
temple of Aphrodte mentioned by Homer and
Herodotus but except some Cyclopean walls
there vestiges of antiquity
Mr.. LABoUcHERE is down on the tall hat. He
says: 81 do so loathe it that if the present Min
istry would deal it a coup de grace by invariably
appearing in pot hats / almost think gratitude
would oblige me to turn Tory-even at the risk
of having my head STAYED ip by Tory consta-
BILE"
IT is not generally known that one of the
sons of Sir Morell Mackenzie. the physician who
is intrusted with the charge of the Crown
Prince of Germany's case, is on the stage. He
is member of the Adelphi Theater Company in
London, in which he figures under the name of
H H Morell.
JAMES PAYN. in the Independent: Here is
pretty advertisement plucked from to-day's pa
per: .'Goswell Road immortalized by the late
Charles Dickens in his famous work The Pick
wick Papers, is also become generally known
the locality where" after which follows the
name of tailors shop.
THE Duke of Rutland is of the English
men who do not swallow free trade.theories hook,
bob and sinker without at least asking ques-
tons. "a cheap loaf" he said the other day.
sis good thing But cheap loaf with no
money to buy it brings the laborer to the work
house or drives him into exile
BosToN Courier: A Boston mother put
ting her little one to bed and said: 81 think,
Flossie you are old enough to learn an evening
y
will repeat it after me-" "Yeth'm," Gsped the
little one. well, we'll begin. Are you readyP
'.Yeth'm. Lerre go, Gallagher"
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINsoN, the we'll
known Bostonian, celebrated his sixtyfourth
birthday Thursday Colonel Higginson is in ro-
bust health. He has retained his vigor by do
votion to outdoor exercise. He rides a tricycle.
in summer and spends good deal of time on a
toboggan during the cold weather
THE marriage of Miss Freeman, late pres-
dent of Wellesley College, and Prof. Palmer, of
Harvard, took place Friday noon at ex-Gov
Cafns winter residence in Boston. Mr.. and
Mrs. Palmer will spend the winter at his cottage
in Bedford, and will make European tour in
the spring, after which Prof. Palmer will resume
his work at Cambridge.
THE temporary tomb of General Logan is still
watched by a guard of soldiers. Mrs. Logan
visits the tomb every day, between 2 and 4
o'clock in the afternoon, frequently carrying
fresh flowers thither. She has looked upon the
face of the dead three times since it has been
laid in the tomb. The features still well
preserved, and long beard has grown out upon
the face and neck.
THE following is from Prof. Longfellow's
private journal. under date of Jan 5. 1853:
Lowell gave supper to Thackeray The other
guests were FELTON,, Clough, Dana, DR.. Parsons,
IDantes translator,) Fields. Edmund Quincy.
Estes and myself. We sat down at 10 and did
not leave the table till Very gay with stories
and Jokes. Will you take some portP said
Lowell to Thackeray. L dare drink anything
that becomes a man. 1t will be long time be-
fore that becomes man. oh. no. cried Eel
ton it is fast turning into ONE
Miss LAURA BRIDGMAN. the blind, deaf and |
lumb inmate of the Perkins Institution for the |
Blind in Boston, yesterday gave reception to
ner friends to mark the fiftieth year of her
dence in that institution, as well the fifty
sight anniversary of her birth. She enjoyed |
The music. the addresses of her guests and the |
presence of those she knew, after her own fash |
on, and expressed her approval of the remarks |
by clapping her hands. DR.. Howe, her teacher. |
though long since dead, has left behind him a |
living MOI ulnent to his earnest and laborious |
work of educating this afflicted woman, who, it |
should be said. does not consider anybody a |
friend who calls he unfortunate.
MISSION.
Now calls the wife of the rector
In twilightis pensive hush,
And her voice is the kind of music
That flows from the bloom-hid thrush.
She SPEAKS of the latest etchings,